Unless they're lying in the video, they've already sold over ten thousand of these puppies, or at least something that's about version 0.93 of it. That doesn't sound like vaporware to me.
No sweat. I've got a 4GB flash drive and a 20 GB Little Disk. Beyond apps and OS, what do I need or even want an internal HD for? Using external drives is far more secure and modular.
I've been wondering the same thing and I suspect that I'm going to do something weird. I did a lot of looking around for portable keyboards with good action, light weight, big enough keys, etc. and having looked at everybody from Adesso on up, I've concluded that I'll probably buy a UMPC of some sort with a not-quite-good-enough keyboard, get by with that when I really want to travel light, and carry one of the new Apple keyboards when I expect to do a lot of writing. The buggers are amazingly light and the action is sweet, though I neither want to pay eighty bucks nor have to trust Bluetooth. But, realistically, at some point in the next few months I'll be gritting my teeth and giving yet more of my money to the folks in Cupertino.
Yeah, that was true with the kind of bulky, heavy tech they had then, mounted with the screen straight up and down. I hear no such complaints from users of Wacoms, including the Cintiqs that are also screens. The key issues are that the pen needs to be very light and the screen should be mounted at the angle a drafting table would be, about thirty degrees from horizontal.
Also, frankly, most a y'all were never taught how to hold a pen properly. Those of us who took drafting classes back in the pen and ink days were taught to hold a pen in the ways that make it practical to work hour after hour, decade after decade, just as draftsmen, illustrators, and engineers had for generations.
I couldn't agree more. I'm seeing nothing bad here and, frankly, my first though on reading the piece linked to was "where can I send a check to contribute?" I would be happier if he was posting more details. I would be happier if I knew that more people were working on the project. But I'll take what I can get and since I've been hungry for such a device like this since at least 1978, I'm not going to complain about details if he gets this puppy advanced enough to release specs.
And remember, the folks at ASUS have admitted that it was the goad of the OLPC that got them to create the EEE PC. Even if this device never reaches the public, just the documented (hence "big mouthed" = feature) existence of working prototypes helps us out by increasing the odds that somebody else will get such a device out the door.
I'm far from pleased about this (as my many posts here show) but the Minneapolis cops are NOT comparable to the SS. They really aren't. What they're doing may be wrong but to equate it with, for example, shooting people down in the streets for having the wrong ethnicity is pathetic. That kind of false equivalency just makes it harder to judge how bad things really are.
Trust me on this; things can get a hell of a lot worse than they are right now and if they do (which I increasingly suspect they will) it will do us no favors at all to misremember how things were.
Then I'll cut you some slack. Having just looked through some of your posts in other threds, I'll even agree that you do make a consistent effort to bring some politically aware clue to discussions.
But I still don't think that name-calling is effective. I understand your frustration. I've done my time, too and it gets kinda lonely out there sometimes. Or, more to the point, perhaps, it's bloody hard to sit in a room full of people complaining and know that you're the only one actually putting your all too fragile ass on the line to do anything about it.
But there is considerable value that comes from somebody, especially somebody like "Garcia" who is pretty upfront about who he is, being willing to come forward and say, "yes, this chilling effect IS changing my behavior." It's gotta be embarrassing, if nothing else. The truly cowardly thing is what thousands have probably done in the past day, which is to be a Twin Cities resident who read this thred and said nothing at all. They are the ones who truly make it harder to judge how much dissent is warped by government actions like these.
Frankly, I planned my trip to Minneapolis a few months back in part specifically to avoid the RNC. I thought about going. Same for Denver. I had offers of transportation and places to crash. And I'm sitting here in the safety of my home a thousand miles away in part because I prefer to reduce my odds of time in a jail cell or even handcuffed on a floor somewhere. And that's a thing worth having on the record, too.
Your examples are very different. From TFA: the police in Boston were "looking for people who had defaulted on warrants for crimes including shoplifting, rape of a child, and assault and battery with a deadly weapon".
Say what you will about the actions but no way will you convince me that the police actions in Minneapolis this past few days are done to find career violent felons.
Good luck with that. The MN police had just such a situation not too long ago. They just brought even more guns. And then they gave medals to the cops who got shot.
Do you own "flammable liquids"? Paint? Rocks? How many Americans own guns? Should they all be arrested for that? As for the "buckets of urine", I'm quite impressed how far and fast that b.s. is spreading. Look above and you'll find that addressed at least five or six times right here in this thread.
Oh, I certainly do hope that there will be a 'law suite", if by that you meant "lawsuit". There are certainly grounds.
No. There are plenty of witnesses who were not members of the "RNC Welcoming Committee". In fact, if you had RTFA, you would know that the biggest raid was against a house full of people who were simply there to videotape the event. A thing that scares the Minneapolis police since over four hundred arrests at the 2004 RNC were proven to be on false grounds due to videotapes that proved that the arresting officers were lying.
Evidently physics works differently on your planet. But here on this planet, people who are handcuffed, face down, on the floor, under the eyes of a crowd of cops, some with drawn automatic weapons, aren't going to be "destroying" much of anything.
The much cited "buckets of urine" were from the house being overcrowded, resulting in a shortage of bathrooms. Please look above where this is addressed.
How far does something have to be to the right to count for you? Law enforcement is bought and paid for and working for the people in power.
The FBI says: this.
ABC says this.
Do the police there have a history of unjustified assaults into houses and then trying to pretend that it's okay? Yes, they do.
Are there more police assaults not being mentioned here? Yes, there are.They've been quite busy.Overwhelming force against people who haven't resisted seems to be a constant.
Now, like all of us, I would love to see a more detailed statement from the police. But I've just been looking and what I'm mostly finding is variations on: "Minneapolis/St. Paul police could not be reached for comment Saturday."
So, tell me, how many times have YOU gone out at high risk of arrest to do something selfless? Easy to call names from a distance. Harder when reality can call your bluff.
As I've asked before, what is your evidence that the OP is somebody who needs to "move out of your parents house and see the world" and isn't doing anything? It's just as easy to take your posts as whining as his.
I've known plenty of cops. Have probably dealt with at least fifty or sixty enough to have some idea of their intelligence. And in my experience they are some little bit smarter than the populations they police. More authoritarian? Yes. Hyped up on their power? Yes. But not dumb or, for that matter, lazy or fundamentally corrupt or most of the other things of which they are so typically accused. The job pays well, provides full retirement at fifty or younger, and has lots of bennies. Plenty of capable people are willing to say yes to that.
If you want to change the police, look at what I've written above. It's not about some inherent deficiencies of theirs. It's about how they're trained, managed, assigned, promoted, and compensated.
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Especially since you misspelled "grok" ;->
Unless they're lying in the video, they've already sold over ten thousand of these puppies, or at least something that's about version 0.93 of it. That doesn't sound like vaporware to me.
No sweat. I've got a 4GB flash drive and a 20 GB Little Disk. Beyond apps and OS, what do I need or even want an internal HD for? Using external drives is far more secure and modular.
You mean the "subset of geeks" who constitute the likely half million or more users of these types of boxen in another six months?
Things are changing fast, my friend.
I've been wondering the same thing and I suspect that I'm going to do something weird. I did a lot of looking around for portable keyboards with good action, light weight, big enough keys, etc. and having looked at everybody from Adesso on up, I've concluded that I'll probably buy a UMPC of some sort with a not-quite-good-enough keyboard, get by with that when I really want to travel light, and carry one of the new Apple keyboards when I expect to do a lot of writing. The buggers are amazingly light and the action is sweet, though I neither want to pay eighty bucks nor have to trust Bluetooth. But, realistically, at some point in the next few months I'll be gritting my teeth and giving yet more of my money to the folks in Cupertino.
Dude, you've *got* to learn to do spoiler warnings if you're going to do a post like that.
Or for covering it in flammables and driving it into Niska's station.
Don't know what you mean by "gorilla arm syndrome" but using a stylus handles the first two concerns just fine.
Yeah, that was true with the kind of bulky, heavy tech they had then, mounted with the screen straight up and down. I hear no such complaints from users of Wacoms, including the Cintiqs that are also screens. The key issues are that the pen needs to be very light and the screen should be mounted at the angle a drafting table would be, about thirty degrees from horizontal.
Also, frankly, most a y'all were never taught how to hold a pen properly. Those of us who took drafting classes back in the pen and ink days were taught to hold a pen in the ways that make it practical to work hour after hour, decade after decade, just as draftsmen, illustrators, and engineers had for generations.
I couldn't agree more. I'm seeing nothing bad here and, frankly, my first though on reading the piece linked to was "where can I send a check to contribute?" I would be happier if he was posting more details. I would be happier if I knew that more people were working on the project. But I'll take what I can get and since I've been hungry for such a device like this since at least 1978, I'm not going to complain about details if he gets this puppy advanced enough to release specs.
And remember, the folks at ASUS have admitted that it was the goad of the OLPC that got them to create the EEE PC. Even if this device never reaches the public, just the documented (hence "big mouthed" = feature) existence of working prototypes helps us out by increasing the odds that somebody else will get such a device out the door.
I'm far from pleased about this (as my many posts here show) but the Minneapolis cops are NOT comparable to the SS. They really aren't. What they're doing may be wrong but to equate it with, for example, shooting people down in the streets for having the wrong ethnicity is pathetic. That kind of false equivalency just makes it harder to judge how bad things really are.
Trust me on this; things can get a hell of a lot worse than they are right now and if they do (which I increasingly suspect they will) it will do us no favors at all to misremember how things were.
Then I'll cut you some slack. Having just looked through some of your posts in other threds, I'll even agree that you do make a consistent effort to bring some politically aware clue to discussions.
But I still don't think that name-calling is effective. I understand your frustration. I've done my time, too and it gets kinda lonely out there sometimes. Or, more to the point, perhaps, it's bloody hard to sit in a room full of people complaining and know that you're the only one actually putting your all too fragile ass on the line to do anything about it.
But there is considerable value that comes from somebody, especially somebody like "Garcia" who is pretty upfront about who he is, being willing to come forward and say, "yes, this chilling effect IS changing my behavior." It's gotta be embarrassing, if nothing else. The truly cowardly thing is what thousands have probably done in the past day, which is to be a Twin Cities resident who read this thred and said nothing at all. They are the ones who truly make it harder to judge how much dissent is warped by government actions like these.
Frankly, I planned my trip to Minneapolis a few months back in part specifically to avoid the RNC. I thought about going. Same for Denver. I had offers of transportation and places to crash. And I'm sitting here in the safety of my home a thousand miles away in part because I prefer to reduce my odds of time in a jail cell or even handcuffed on a floor somewhere. And that's a thing worth having on the record, too.
Remind me to never accept any food taken from your fridge.
I was under the impression that the UID comment was about Steve Franklin.
Your examples are very different. From TFA: the police in Boston were "looking for people who had defaulted on warrants for crimes including shoplifting, rape of a child, and assault and battery with a deadly weapon".
Say what you will about the actions but no way will you convince me that the police actions in Minneapolis this past few days are done to find career violent felons.
It's fuck "tha" police.
Kids these days. No respect for tradition.
Good luck with that. The MN police had just such a situation not too long ago. They just brought even more guns. And then they gave medals to the cops who got shot.
Do you own "flammable liquids"? Paint? Rocks? How many Americans own guns? Should they all be arrested for that? As for the "buckets of urine", I'm quite impressed how far and fast that b.s. is spreading. Look above and you'll find that addressed at least five or six times right here in this thread.
Oh, I certainly do hope that there will be a 'law suite", if by that you meant "lawsuit". There are certainly grounds.
No. There are plenty of witnesses who were not members of the "RNC Welcoming Committee". In fact, if you had RTFA, you would know that the biggest raid was against a house full of people who were simply there to videotape the event. A thing that scares the Minneapolis police since over four hundred arrests at the 2004 RNC were proven to be on false grounds due to videotapes that proved that the arresting officers were lying.
Evidently physics works differently on your planet. But here on this planet, people who are handcuffed, face down, on the floor, under the eyes of a crowd of cops, some with drawn automatic weapons, aren't going to be "destroying" much of anything.
The much cited "buckets of urine" were from the house being overcrowded, resulting in a shortage of bathrooms. Please look above where this is addressed.
How far does something have to be to the right to count for you? Law enforcement is bought and paid for and working for the people in power.
The FBI says: this.
ABC says this.
Do the police there have a history of unjustified assaults into houses and then trying to pretend that it's okay? Yes, they do.
Are there more police assaults not being mentioned here? Yes, there are. They've been quite busy. Overwhelming force against people who haven't resisted seems to be a constant.
Now, like all of us, I would love to see a more detailed statement from the police. But I've just been looking and what I'm mostly finding is variations on: "Minneapolis/St. Paul police could not be reached for comment Saturday."
So, tell me, how many times have YOU gone out at high risk of arrest to do something selfless? Easy to call names from a distance. Harder when reality can call your bluff.
As I've asked before, what is your evidence that the OP is somebody who needs to "move out of your parents house and see the world" and isn't doing anything? It's just as easy to take your posts as whining as his.
I've known plenty of cops. Have probably dealt with at least fifty or sixty enough to have some idea of their intelligence. And in my experience they are some little bit smarter than the populations they police. More authoritarian? Yes. Hyped up on their power? Yes. But not dumb or, for that matter, lazy or fundamentally corrupt or most of the other things of which they are so typically accused. The job pays well, provides full retirement at fifty or younger, and has lots of bennies. Plenty of capable people are willing to say yes to that.
If you want to change the police, look at what I've written above. It's not about some inherent deficiencies of theirs. It's about how they're trained, managed, assigned, promoted, and compensated.